What is Freckle?
Freckle is a popular time tracking and project management software designed specifically for agencies, creative firms, consultants, freelancers, and other professional services providers. It makes it easy to track billable time and expenses, generate detailed invoices and reports, manage budgets, and communicate timelines and status updates to clients.
Some key features of Freckle include:
- Easy time tracking with timers, stopwatches, and manual time entry options
- Expense reporting and tracking for billable reimbursements
- Project budgeting tools to estimate, allocate, and monitor spend
- Client dashboards and automated notifications to provide visibility
- Detailed reporting and analytics across projects, clients, and team members
- Integration with popular billing platforms like QuickBooks and Xero
- Intuitive mobile apps for on-the-go time tracking
Freckle stands out with its simple and intuitive user interface focused specifically on the needs of professional services providers. It also places emphasis on client reporting through automated notifications and clean, branded client dashboards. The cost structure is based on a tiered system depending on the number of users and billed customers.
Toggl Track, Clockify, RescueTime, FreshBooks, ManicTime, Kimai, DeskTime, Cattr, Project Hamster, timeBuzzer, Paymo are some alternatives to Freckle.